Paycheque Receipt and the Timing of Consumption

By Melvin Stephens. 2006

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• The Short-Term Mortality Consequences of Income Receipt (2011, background): “Parker (1999), Stephens (2006), and Browning and Collado (2001) use the receipt of earnings to test the LC/PIH, with the first two studies finding consumption was excessively sensitive to income receipt.”
• Information Asymmetries in Consumer Credit Markets: Evidence from Payday Lending (2013, unknown): “[41] Stephens, Melvin.”
• Heterogeneity in Intra-monthly Consumption Patterns, Self-Control, and Savings at Retirement (2009, unknown): “Stephens Jr. (2006) studies payday effects using U.K. Family Expenditure Survey data and again finds that expenditures tend to spike soon after the paycheck receipt.”
• The effects of government transfers on monthly cycles in drug abuse, hospitalization and mortality ☆ (2007, background): “…payments to Alaskans from the Alaska Permanent Fund (Hsieh, 2003), tax rebates (Johnson et al., 2004), union contracts (Shea, 2005), the final payment of a car loan (Stephens, 2005), paycheck receipt (Stephens, 2006), and anticipated and unanticipated household energy costs (Cullen et al., 2004).”